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Posted on 23rd September 2015 |
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Google has decided to make a stand (as reported in this BBC story). Good for them! As I previously mentioned in this post about extraterritorial legislation, the French data protection authority, CNIL, ruled that Google must censor search results on all its search services, not just European services, in accordance with "right to be forgotten" decisions. What gives CNIL the authority to order the censoring of search results in other legal jurisdictions (e.g. the USA, China, Australia and Russia)? Someone certainly needed to stand up for the rights of Internet users around the world; I am glad that Google has the courage to do what is necessary. Censorship is one of the major scourges of the modern Internet (the other being the erosion of net neutarlity), and it must not go unchallenged. Go Google! | |